We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate-VM and SonicWall NSa based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Firewalls solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The virtual firewall feature is the most valuable. We have around 1,500 firewalls. We did not buy individual hardware, and the virtual firewalls made sense because we don't have to keep on buying the hardware. FortiGate is easier to use as compared to Checkpoint devices. It is user friendly and has a good UI. You don't need much expertise to work on this firewall. You don't need to worry much about DCLA, commands, and things like that."
"The GUI is good."
"UTM/NGFW features and FortiCloud for logs and backups are awesome."
"It's quite comfortable to handle the FortiGate firewall."
"The stability and scalability of this solution are satisfactory. Its SD-WAN, VPN, and URL filtering features are very useful."
"The simplicity of the configuration and the stability of the product are most valuable. The VPN concentrator is very useful."
"The technical support in our region is excellent."
"Provides good firewall security and has great VPN features."
"An enhanced security solution for any kind of alert that we have configured."
"The platform has a good user interface."
"It's almost perfect. It's very stable. We don't have many hardware issues."
"The product is easy to implement."
"High network throughput while providing leading edge network security technology for a competitive price."
"FortiGate-VM's firewall is excellent."
"Operations have been flawless."
"The most valuable features are network security, VLAN, network protection, and encryption are very valuable to us."
"This product has kept us safe and we haven't had any breaches."
"It allows us to block applications, i.e., websites by application type category. It is far more capable than content filtering alone."
"The most valuable features are flexibility, ease of setup, and it's a good product cost-wise."
"This product is user-friendly and easy to configure."
"The product is working okay. The product is working feature-wise."
"SonicWall NSA is easy to deploy, easy to maintain, and easy to configure."
"The features that I have found most valuable are the firewalling, which is very good and the GUI which is very intuitive. It is easy to use, and provides great security."
"The product blocks access when I visit unrecognized websites."
"We had a minor problem where there was a major system upgrade on the hardware platfrom and the Mac client was not available as soon as it might have been. The PC client was available immediately, but we had to wait a month or so, before there was a mac client. I was slightly irritated that it was not ready on time, but it was eventually resolved."
"They have to just improve its performance when we enable all UTM features. When you enable all the features, the performance of FortiGate, as well as of Sophos and SonicWall, goes down."
"Fortinet FortiGate could improve the user interface. There should be more functionality and options through the GUI."
"You do need some IT knowledge in order to effectively work with the solution."
"I would like to see a more intuitive dashboard."
"It would be nice if FortiGate incorporated some built-in endpoint protection features. I would also like a built-in SOC dashboard for managing multiple Fortinet firewalls."
"I'm not sure if it's something that they already have or are developing something, however, we need some dedicated features for container security."
"Monitoring and reporting could be better."
"We haven't attempted to scale the solution just yet. If we want to scale this solution we may have to look at other models. With certain requirements, we probably wouldn't be able to scale it so well as it is right now."
"Technical support could be improved."
"The operating system isn't stable, so it goes to memory counters every night."
"In the first two releases of FortiOS 5.6, we had some trouble with the SSL VPN service. Sometimes it stopped working, and the IPS daemon too."
"The user interface could be improved."
"Customization needs improvement."
"his is not a good solution for enterprises. It's better for smaller companies."
"Now they do have the ability to pop up a command line, which is nice, however, the fact that you can't do everything within the GUI is probably a problem."
"They should consider upgrading the capabilities within the GUI."
"It is very modular and with native resources which are much lower than its competitors."
"The pricing for this product in India is high and the fees should be reduced."
"The content filter needs to be improved."
"We also use the Sophos Firewall for web configuration, which we don't have in SonicWall. Only Sophos has those options. If SonicWall included that feature, that would be a benefit for us."
"The thing main thing is that there's no user admin and in other firewalls, we can enable the scalable features, but SonicWall doesn't have that feature."
"We're not particularly fond of the way it generally performs. We are finding ourselves rebooting often. There are freeze-ups and that kind of thing. The stability needs to improve exponentially."
"The logging, reporting, and storage capacity size could improve in a future release."
Fortinet FortiGate-VM is ranked 9th in Firewalls with 113 reviews while SonicWall NSa is ranked 19th in Firewalls with 80 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate-VM is rated 8.4, while SonicWall NSa is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate-VM writes "An easy-to-manage and configure tool that provides ample documentation to help with the setup phase". On the other hand, the top reviewer of SonicWall NSa writes "Great performance and security with reasonable pricing". Fortinet FortiGate-VM is most compared with Azure Firewall, Palo Alto Networks VM-Series, Fortinet FortiOS, OPNsense and Cisco Secure Firewall, whereas SonicWall NSa is most compared with SonicWall TZ, Meraki MX, Sophos XG, Cisco Secure Firewall and Netgate pfSense. See our Fortinet FortiGate-VM vs. SonicWall NSa report.
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